Final countdown
Classes start tomorrow. Argh.
Took the placement test for Chinese and got placed into Chinese 1. I’m still not off the wait-list yet, but neither is anyone else, so I’m not worried.
Went and bought textbooks today, now that my schedule is finally solid. The PIC 10A book is gigantic. It’s this enormous soft-cover tome called Big C++. I guess C++ is a bigger language than Java so it deserves a bigger book, but still. This thing is gigantic.
The book for Philos 31 is interesting. It’s this very regal looking hardcover titled simply Logic. I looked at some of the diagrams inside and it all looks very complicated and arcane. There are a lot of Greek letters and symbols flying around in boxes and columns and rows, like they’re describing the flow of some arcane energy through a spell. Or something.
The Chinese books are pretty standard. There’s a character workbook, a textbook, and an exercises book. We get the choice of learning in either traditional or simplified characters, which I think is cool. I chose to do traditional, so I bought the traditional versions of the textbook and exercises book. The character workbook teaches both styles. I guess the idea is that we do our work in one system, but learn both through the character workbook.
Linguistics only has a course reader. I had to go down to Westwood and buy the thing this afternoon. It’s a pretty thin reader and was pretty cheap, compared to the rest of the books I had to buy. Still, I had to go down to Westwood to buy it.
All was not lost on that trip, though, as I decided to make a stop by Gamestop while I was walking back from the course reader store. I found copies of Rune Factory and Phoenix Wright which I snapped up. I need to start justifying my game systems with more games. Rune Factory is supposed to be like Harvest Moon but with fantasy elements. Alex and Jeff think it’s pretty cool so I’ll give it a shot.
In other news, I’m excited for the release of Gutsy. I’m thinking of backing up my data and doing a fresh install over my current partition. Maybe move my /home folder to a separate partition so I can change distros easily. That’d be a lot of work, though. I’ll have to see.
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